"What constrains or enables the capacity of human……" — Nicholas A. Christakis
"What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions."
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16 Quotes by Nicholas A. Christakis
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Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one…
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of…
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We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's…
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If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese,…
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Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
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One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often…
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It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face…
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I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
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We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do…
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It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a…
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Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for…
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We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more…
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